Swift Current, Sask | nserfas - 2/10/2010 22:20
As for your refernce farmer, his crop did not make the IP standards, so it was opted out. End of story. It is now considered generic durum. It was his choice to go back to Viterra for a #2. He could have sold to Cargill for a #2 or #3. Or anybody else for that matter. What does this have to do with the Navigator IP programs from Viterra? His grain didn't make the cut, thats Viterra's fault? Yes he has an issue with Viterra's customer service, but that can be found within ANY grain handling company.
It was not his choice to go back to Viterra. Now I don't know if he was blowing off steam to them, or exactly how they found out someone else was going to give him a #2 generic for it, but either way they changed the grade putting it back under the program. They then forced him to empty out his bins (they had told him they would come out and check to make sure), and then put the 25000 bus pile of durum that he had made at harvest time into the bins that he had just emptied. Now the icing on the cake was he did not have enough storage at home. So he first hauled the durum 35 miles to put it in a pile at home, then hauled it 35 miles back to fill bins he had at the field, then had to haul it an additional 35 miles to get it to the elevator at the end. The elevator that had accepted it as generic #2 would have taken his pile immediately. Viterra drug the process out and would not take his durum right away, so the pile sat on the ground an extra 1-2 months. |
PEA and LENTIL growers.............
